And the colourful boss, who was briefly in charge of Jordan earlier this year, added: “I look at the FA and the people there are very much the same types.

“We’ve gone back to the Charles Hughes days where everybody came through coaching courses and were almost like teachers.

“I don’t see a lot of flair there at any level and a lot of the people involved, if you look at their records, didn’t have teams who have looked to play football. Not the way I talk about playing football.

“There’s not many ex-footballers at the FA. It seems to be schoolteacher types and young academics.

“I see these people when they’re 21-years-old coaching kids and I think ‘why aren’t they playing’? They don’t play but they know all the answers and they’re coaching the kids when we should just let the kids play, encourage skill, let them dribble.

“Where have the dribblers gone? No one can beat anyone any more.

“Everybody, pass-pass-pass-pass. That’s all you hear them saying. Not take him on. I don’t hear that. I want to see Messi.